that's fine. just the error isn't very helpful.. and the browsers don't play nice. anyway
> That's by design. In 1.2.0 you can only see your own user document. > > B. > > On 22 March 2013 13:03, svilen <[email protected]> wrote: > > g'day > > i am playing with the plain user:psw auth in url, and it gives funny > > results. at least to me.. (couchdb 1.2.0 in latest ubuntu) > > > > i register some user, say name=a/psw=b. > > > > with auth: > > $ curl GET http://a:b@/_users/org.couchdb.user:a > > is fine > > > > without auth: > > $ curl GET http://_users/org.couchdb.user:a > > returns 404 {"error":"not_found","reason":"missing"} > > > > now with auth, but in browsers: > > - opera http://a:b@/_users/org.couchdb.user:a works > > - firefox http://a:b@/_users/org.couchdb.user:a warns about > > "server not needing authentication".. and strips the usr/psw > > yielding 404 > > - iexplorer - 404 - strips unconditionaly > > > > is this something that is expected to be so? > > maybe the error can be changed (to 401) ? > > > > i don't know that part about the "server not needing > > authentication" .. maybe something in the headers ? or some config > > of couch_httpd_auth ? > > > > ciao > > svilen
